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Hey what's up everyone Andrew Limbong here in for Marial Segara.

I'm at that age where a decent amounts of my Instagram feed is friends posting pictures of their kids at the park at the

pool at church the recital or tournament or game and it's great I'm not going to be one of

those people who get on a soapbox yelling about kids on my feed, but there is something disconcerting about the

whole process, isn't there?

So I do think parents should be aware that they're not going to know at the moment that they share a piece

of information or even a photo or a video where it might go.

That's Leah Plunkett. She's on the faculty of Harvard Law School

with a specific interest in children and family law and technology.

Given that the devices we hold in our hands, the ones I'm holding right now, are digital billboards.

They are metaphorically speaking, digital billboards by the side of every highway, everywhere in the world, now, and in perpetuity.

She wrote a book about how adults unwittingly compromise the privacy of children by posting. It's titled

Sharonhood, you know like sharing and parenthood. And listen, my wife and I are

actually pretty strict about what we share about our kid online, but it turns out we're not the only people in our kids life with access to a smartphone.

In my book, literally and metaphorically,

Sharonting refers to all the ways that parents but also aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches,

and other trusted adults in a kiddo's life transmit children's private information digitally.

Today I'm Life Kit Lea and I talk about the potential harms of posting your kid online too much,

how to decide what to post, and how to talk to the grandparents about maybe not putting the

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